Comments on: NASCAR Rivals: Juan Pablo Montoya Intentionally Wrecks Kyle Busch

By: Juan Pablo Montoya

Juan Pablo Montoya — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:50:58 +0000

Atlanta History: Juan Pablo Montoya will be making his sixth NSCS start at Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend. He has an average starting position of 16.8 and an average finishing position of 24.4 in his five prior NSCS starts. Montoya’s best finish of fifth came in his first NSCS start at the 1.54-Mile Quad-Oval. Earlier this season, Montoya qualified fourth but battled an ill-handling car before coming home 27th. In the NNS garage, Montoya has one start which resulted in an eighth-place finish.

Montoya Holds Benefit Concert: While many in NASCAR used the off week to relax, Juan Pablo Montoya took the opportunity to continue with his philanthropic efforts. Juan Pablo and his wife Connie held a benefit concert in Panama City, Panama, called Formula Latina, last week to benefit his Formula Smiles foundation. Formula Latina was a private concert, held to benefit nearly 5000 underprivileged Colombian children to whom new opportunities are offered through sports and healthy recreation. Nearly a dozen popular stars of the Latin music scene participated in the benefit concert including Latin pop sensation Luis Fonsi.

About Bristol: Juan Pablo Montoya maintained his position inside the top-12 of the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings after a 25th-place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway. Montoya had a fast car all weekend and qualified 11th for the start of the Sharpie 500. He battled inside the top-10 for the majority of his day, often appearing inside the top-5. Montoya moved into the second position as a caution fell for rain with only 40 laps remaining, but after the restart he started falling back and was eventually forced to pit with a right rear tire going down. The pit stop put the Target Chevrolet two laps down, relegating Montoya to a 25th-place finish.

In the Points: With only two races remaining before the Chase cutoff, Montoya sits ninth in the NSCS standings. He is now 64 points in front of 13th position and just 20 points out of seventh. Just 89 points separates 7th through 14th position in the standings.

2009 In Numbers: Montoya and the Target team have one pole award, one top-five, 11 top-10 and 15 top-15 finishes in the 2009 season. In the 24 Cup races run this season Montoya has earned 19 top-20 finishes. He has led 133 laps and averages a starting position of 12.4 and a finishing position of 14.0 for the season.

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:41:34 +0000

I wanna say Robby Gordon was the fan favorite in this one… I don’t know why. It’s fuzzy. Age sucks.

By: Tim Zaegel

Tim Zaegel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:39:07 +0000

Dangit, Bruce … now I’ve gotta go do some research to figure out who the heck that was at Bristol. For some reason it’s a foggy image in my head.

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:13:50 +0000

I couldn’t help myself. Anyone popping Ku Busch deserved some kind of support.

Who was it that got into it on pit road at Bristol, and the fans started sending him money to pay his fine? – I don’t remember because I didn’t buy that diecast… But it was a popular decking in the pits, for sure.

Just not popular enough for me to remember…

By: Tim Zaegel

Tim Zaegel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:34:46 +0000

Adam, I can’t say that I necessarily think that was the motive behind NASCAR not handing out a stiffer fine against Montoya, but I do believe that the penalties should have been much more harsh … whether monetary or in points.

By: Tim Zaegel

Tim Zaegel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:33:43 +0000

Geez, Bruce … a Jimmy Spencer diecast?

By: Adam C

Adam C — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:23:26 +0000

I dont get how nascar fines some people for cussing on the radios but all they do to juan is penalize him two laps for intentionaly wrecking another car. Only reason is because it was busch that he recked and nascar knew the fans would love it.

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:44:59 +0000

Sadly I had to buy a jimmy spencer diecast a few years ago just because of the other Busch brother… those kids are costing me bucks!!

By: Tim Zaegel

Tim Zaegel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:28:29 +0000

Ryan’s #1, without these types of feuds brewing out there on the track every now and again, the racing world could become very dull very fast.

By: Tim Zaegel

Tim Zaegel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:27:41 +0000

WINN3R, I think it’s kinda funny considering the two guys involved. When we were watching the race, my brother was yelling at JPM through the tv for being an idiot. I was just like, “Dude, if it was anyone else …”